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For a Technical Deep Dive, they expect you to provide 3+ page outline of project that defines your experience. Sounds great, but instead of reviewing and letting you know if it's what they want, they will waste your time interviewing. They are looking for how experience matches to their perception of reality and 'scale'. I would definitely try and get someone to vet your proposal before wasting your time.
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Staff Engineer

Interviewed at HubSpot

3.4
Dec 2, 2023

For a Technical Deep Dive, they expect you to provide 3+ page outline of project that defines your experience. Sounds great, but instead of reviewing and letting you know if it's what they want, they will waste your time interviewing. They are looking for how experience matches to their perception of reality and 'scale'. I would definitely try and get someone to vet your proposal before wasting your time.

1. Design a workflow system 2. Print binary tree nodes in zig zag order level by level. 3. Basic CS questions like, what happens when you hit "google.com" on browser, database design questions, scalability questions etc..
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Walmart

3.4
Jul 15, 2015

1. Design a workflow system 2. Print binary tree nodes in zig zag order level by level. 3. Basic CS questions like, what happens when you hit "google.com" on browser, database design questions, scalability questions etc..

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